Question follow-through · 27670
Asylum
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the number of unprocessed initial asylum applications was as of 1 July 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 7 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
7 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the number of unprocessed initial asylum applications was as of 1 July 2024.
9 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’ and in the ‘Migration transparency data’.Data on asylum claims awaiting an initial decision at the end of each quarter is published in table Asy_D03 of the ‘...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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